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Originally Posted by MEAD
My future almost seems predetermined, graduate college, get a job, marry, have kids, grow old, impart wisdom/go senile, die.
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You have some choice, but in the end you will fulfil this prophecy to some extent, because you have no other options. You can splash in all the puddles you want ( as Mal has suggested ) but when it's all done, you still need a job. You need to support your habits and the only way you can do that is with legal tender. Most likely you will find a job you don't hate and stick with it because you have to. You don't have to marry. That I agree with. But you will spend your life seeking companionship of one variety or another until you find it. You will grow old, my friend. That again is something you cannot deny or ignore. Just yesterday my mother in law was having a great laugh at my expense because she noticed all the hair I have growing on my back. It sucks. I hate it, but I can't stop it. I can try to deny, hide, ignore all the signs that tell me I'm not who I once was, but that's foolish. I don't think the key to facing the inevitabilities of life is to try to cover them up with other silly distractions. I think the key is complacency. "Yeah. I'm getting old. Oh, look. Dr. Phil is on."